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Oct 13 2010 06:15 PM ET

'Jonah Hex' DVD giveaway

by Emily Exton

Categories: Giveaways

Jonah-Hex Hey, PopWatchers (and Megan Fox fans)! We’re giving away 25 copies of Jonah Hex on DVD!

The DVDs are courtesy of our corporate siblings at Warner Home Video, and are available while supplies last. Want to win a copy? Here’s how to enter:

1. Go to our Facebook page.

2. Click “Like” at the top of the page

3. Find the post on our Wall announcing the giveaway, click Comment, and tell which of Megan Fox’s movie roles is your favorite and why. (Note: Commenting on this post won’t enter you in the giveaway; see the official rules after the jump.)

4. If you’re a winner, we’ll contact you via Facebook message to request your mailing address.

The giveaway starts NOW! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 13 2010 06:15 PM ET

David Arquette apologizes on Twitter for his comments to Howard Stern

by Margaret Lyons

Categories: Celebrity Couples, Celebrity Scandals, Things That Are Sad, Twitter

David Arquette took some flak yesterday for his extremely candid interview with Howard Stern, and he’s taken to Twitter to apologize. “I went on Howard Stern yesterday to provide clarity and honesty about what I’m experiencing,” he wrote, “but while doing that I shared too much….it’s alright for me to be honest about my own feelings but in retrospect some of the information I provided involved others and for that I am sorry and humbled.” Sadface for you, David Arquette. I’m so torn between loving juicy, horribly too-private details, and having a shred of dignity and human decency. It’s tough!

Admit it, PopWatchers: There’s a part of you that takes celebrity divorces a little bit personally, right?

Oct 13 2010 05:40 PM ET

Perez Hilton wants to stop being a bully on his blog. Do you believe him?

by Sandra Gonzalez

Categories: Does Anyone Really Need an Article to Answer This Headline?, Television

Image Credit: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic.comAfter his recent anti-bullying efforts resulted in a rather profound pot-kettle moment, Perez Hilton is changing his ways.

The celebrity blogger took a seat on Ellen DeGeneres’ couch this afternoon on her talk show to declare an end to celebrity bullying. (Watch part of his appearance below.) “I’m going to do things differently on my website than I have in the past,” he said. “I’m not going to call people nasty nicknames; I’m not going to go the mean route.”

I know what you’re thinking, Yeah. I wonder how long that will last. Ellen seemed skeptical, too. In fact, the normally chipper host was relatively critical — which made me love her more. She brought up how the change in approach might result in lost revenue and asked him if that would affect his decision in the future. (He said no.) She even questioned his use of the word “sassy” when he described his new method, saying she hoped that it wasn’t just a new term for an old habit.

It very well might be, and I can’t say I’m convinced of anything at this point, PopWatchers. Is this too little, too late? Or has Hilton’s heart really grown three sizes? If you visit the site, is a tamed Perez a turn-off? Ellen seems to be giving him a chance … should we? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 13 2010 05:15 PM ET

New Henson project: Could puppets get any cooler?

by Jennifer Armstrong

Categories: Advance Advancement, Animation, Movies, Muppets

A dark comedy thriller directed by Jim Henson’s son, set in a puppet dystopia, is in the works at Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This, on top of the upcoming Muppets movie (written by and starring Jason Segel) and Sesame Street‘s sudden return to the zeitgeist, and I think we can officially declare that Muppets are back. Brian Henson’s Happytime Murders – which is not directly related to the Muppets and not, it seems, meant for kids — sounds like it’ll really give the Henson name some new cool cred, too. The script tells of a world where humans and puppets co-exist, though the puppets are second-class citizens. The puppet cast of a 1980s kids’ show called The Happytime Gang starts getting murdered one by one, prompting an alcoholic former-cop puppet to take the case with his ex-partner, a human. A little bit Roger Rabbit, a little bit Avenue Q, a lot awesome if they get it just right.

What do you think, PopWatchers? Are you psyched for Happytime Murders?

Oct 13 2010 04:55 PM ET

Kristen Stewart talks dirty... in clip from 'Welcome to the Rileys'

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Kristen Stewart, Movies

A new clip for the Kristen Stewart stripper movie Welcome to the Rileys has emerged courtesy of Vulture (watch it here), and while some of you will want to talk about Stewart spouting seriously NSFW language, I’d like to note how cute James Gandolfini’s laugh is when Stewart announces that she doesn’t do a certain sexual act. It’s the way he brings his hand up to his mouth to cover the giggle that gets me.

Gandolfini and Melissa Leo co-star as parents grieving the death of their daughter in a car accident. He travels to New Orleans on business, stumbles across Stewart’s runaway character in a restaurant, and decides he’s going to get her life on track because she looks like the child he lost. Leo’s character overcomes her stress-induced agoraphobia and eventually follows him to the Big Easy, where she tries to save her marriage, and Stewart from a life on the pole. Watch the trailer here.

Oct 13 2010 04:33 PM ET

TBS orders 'Undercover Karaoke' pilot: Who should sing?

by Keith Staskiewicz

Categories: Made Us Think

Image Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage.com; Michael Putland/RetnaWhat does Steve Perry sing at the end of a night of karaoke? It would seem narcissistic of the former Journey frontman to belt out “Don’t Stop Believin’”, but why should he be forced to give up finishing off the evening on an epic note with the single greatest karaoke anthem of all time just because he happens to be the one who wrote it? It doesn’t seem fair.

Well, issues like this — which must plague others as much as they do me, right? — might finally be resolved. TBS has ordered a half-hour pilot based on “Undercover Karaoke,” the Funny or Die video that featured Jewel dressing down as a shy dormouse who just happened to be able to really nail “Who Will Save Your Soul” to an understandably impressed bar audience. As anyone whose spent an embarrassingly long amount of time in a karaoke booth can attest, “songs that are good for karaoke” can be a decidedly different category from “songs that are good.” We can only hope that the show knows the distinction and will go for some of those good drunk-and-it’s-2 a.m. standbys. Jewel’s a good start, but will we see Alanis Morissette in a wig doing “You Oughta Know” or Pat Benatar in sunglasses asking an unsuspecting audience to “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”?

Quick, somebody call Bonnie Tyler. We need her now tonight — and we need her more than ever. Maybe we can even get Neil Diamond to do “Sweet Caroline,” or even better, Will Ferrell dressed as Neil Diamond dressed as a bar patron singing “Sweet Caroline.” And Mr. Perry will finally be able to get on that midnight train going anywhere. What do you think, PopWatchers? What karaoke room classics should go undercover?

Oct 13 2010 04:00 PM ET

Jennifer Morrison looks extremely adorable on 'How I Met Your Mother'

by Margaret Lyons

Categories: Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, How I Met Your Mother, Television

Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBSOh holy cats, Jennifer Morrison and Josh Radnor look so damn cute in this promo shot for an upcoming ep of How I Met Your Mother. Morrison’s Zooey makes her first appearance in next week’s episode, “Architecture of Destruction,” as an activist who’s trying to preserve the old building Ted wants to tear down to build his Goliath National Bank HQ. Drams!

It’s time to root for Ted, you guys. Sure, he’s been a douchelord in the past, and yeah, he’s a crazy person on the bus sometimes, but his character has always been really good at being in lerrrrve.

What have you thought of this season of Mother so far, PopWatchers? It’s been a little slow for me, but I’m extremely optimistic about this development. You?

Oct 13 2010 03:30 PM ET

Nicole Richie blasts paps for 'stalking' daughter. Paging Heather Chandler!

by Sandra Gonzalez

Categories: Kids' Corner, Television, Things That Are Criminal

Image Credit: Byron Cohen/NBCWhen will when the paparazzi learn that you don’t mess with a mama and her cub? In a fiery blog post addressed to X17, Nicole Richie called the website “irresponsible and repulsive” for routinely sending photographers to sit outside of her daughter Harlow’s preschool. She elaborated: “Here’s a better visual: Pulling up to school and seeing grown men slouched in black windowed cars outside of a preschool, all day. I’m not even there, so you cannot say you are following me as you always do. You are stalking the children. Now how do you feel?”

I’m not a parent, PopWatchers, but I am a human being. And this is pretty sickening. I think it’s about time for Heather Chandler (Sarah’s high school nemesis on Chuck) to pay these photographers a visit, no?

In all seriousness, last month, California passed a new anti-paparazzi law that implemented harsher penalties against celebrity photographers who break traffic laws while working. At the time, Sean Burke of the Paparazzi Reform Initiative told the L.A. Times that the laws were “specifically targeted to increase public safety.” But what about the tiniest public — kids? What do you think should be done?

It’s worth noting that Richie concluded her blog post with, “Consider this a warning.” Paps, see video below. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 13 2010 02:45 PM ET

Are there certain shots that will always remind you of 'Gilmore Girls'?

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Nostalgia, Television, Who Else Remembers This?

As previously established on PopWatch, I’m obsessed with Shannen Doherty’s Hallmark movie Growing the Big One premiering Oct. 23, in which she plays a city girl who has to save her late grandfather’s farm by winning a contest for growing the biggest pumpkin. Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, along with a preview. It’s while viewing the latter that I saw this shot of Doherty and costar Kavan Smith at what I assume is some kind of town meeting and realized that it’s impossible for me to see an image like this and not think of Lorelai and Rory at a town meeting in Stars Hollow. (I’ve embedded a few of those below as well.)

Are there certain shots that always make you long for Gilmore Girls/Stars Hollow, or am I the only crazy person? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 13 2010 02:15 PM ET

'No Ordinary Family' recap: Liar, Liar, Secret Identity On Fire!

by Jeff Jensen

Categories: Fall 2010 TV recaps, No Ordinary Family, Sci-Fi, Television

Image Credit: Adam Larkey/ABCOne of the things I have enjoyed most about No Ordinary Family so far has been how the show makes use of superhero conventions in overt and thematic ways in the context of a family drama — or rather, a drama about a family suddenly blessed/cursed with super-powers. Last night was all about secret identities, and how having and maintaining one requires the hero — an archetype of ethical, virtuous character — to lie and live a lie and do all of this lying with a skill that would make a super-villain stand and slow-clap with admiration. But the deception must be perpetrated, no matter how uncomfortable it makes the hero, for the sake of protecting the hero’s family, friends, and himself or herself.

No Ordinary Family found clever ways to explore and play with this conceit. Super-fast Steph conspired to hide her speedster ID from her employer after Global Tech took an insurance policy out on the prized egghead. Her ditzy, well-meaning lab assistant Katie — a little bit too ditzy in this ep — took it upon herself to pose as Steph and take the mandatory physical on her behalf. (Steph might be the company’s prized asset, but it seems not a lot of people can recognize her on sight — which isn’t too far-fetched, as viewers of Undercover Boss can attest.) Steph knew the lie wouldn’t fly — it actually made her situation worse, because if Katie’s criminal ruse to mask the truth about Steph’s radioactive/magical/mystery plant-enhanced blood sample was exposed, both of them would be fired — and so she had to swap one cover-up for another. Yet by episode’s end, Steph’s nefarious boss Dr. Dayton King became suspicious, and with that, the show’s slow-burning mythology storyline sizzled forward by centimeters…

Nobody told more fibs in the episode than Daphne, which was ironic, given she was the episode’s chief tub-thumper for total transparency. READ FULL STORY »